The government of the day is presently perceived as being built as not fulfilling the totality of its electoral promises. This perception is largely informed by the way the government dish out promises but find it either difficult or impossible to keep, for reasons best known to them.
During one of his campaigns in Nnewi for the Anambra state gubernatorial election, His Excellency Governor Willie Obiano promised to ‘Light up Nnewi’. Presently, one would find it difficult to adjudge the promises made as either fulfilled or failed, this being that the ‘light up’ project have both completed and uncompleted phases; with reports gathered showing only Bank road, Igwe Orizu road and a part of the Okigwe road which covers the Igwe’s palace, being the only phases of the said project to have been completed.
On the 17th of May 2016, the governor commissioned the Igwe Orizu road streetlights- a 5km distance project, running from Nkwo Nnewi market to the Igwe’s palace. The light up project marked the town as a contributing factor to the state’s “light of the nation” ideology.
As good as it is a commendable effort, it is important to point out that apart from these two places, no other part of the town has seen the completion of the project as what is obtainable in various parts of the town are poles mounted along the roads, devoid of complete structures that pass for streetlights.
This lays to bare the (in)sincerity of the government in executing projects and raises the question of why the ‘light up’ project remains uncompleted in supposed areas that have little or no influential figure to speak up.
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